# Timeout during connect

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/timeout-during-connect/98318>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [July 23, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/timeout-during-connect/98318 "2019-07-23T00:11:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/timeout-during-connect/98318/12 "2019-08-08T22:34:23Z")

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Those IP addresses are from the Let's Encrypt staging environment. Something specific to the staging environment is that it performs validation from multiple servers at the same time ([Validating challenges from multiple network vantage points](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/validating-challenges-from-multiple-network-vantage-points/40955)).

> There are three remote VAs and two of the three remote VAs must succeed for the validation to succeed.

Right now, I see 4 requests arriving for a single challenge. I'm not sure if the above statement is still true about the required threshold for success, but I think it's the most likely explanation for your symptoms.

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